{"id":18677,"date":"2014-11-05T10:28:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T15:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/blog\/?p=18677"},"modified":"2014-11-05T10:30:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T15:30:16","slug":"50-great-documentaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/05\/50-great-documentaries\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Great Documentaries"},"content":{"rendered":"

People occasionally ask me what\u2019s the best way to become a better editor. For a long time, my stock answer was to watch a lot of movies. I think now that a more precise answer is to understand how movies work: to dissect them the way Renaissance artists dissected cadavers in order to better understand the human form.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, here\u2019s a list of 50 documentaries that I particularly enjoyed. The list is not a best of<\/em>. And it\u2019s far from complete. Many were produced in America and most are from the last 20 years. What these films have in common is that they are all tell great stories.<\/p>\n

Make sure to add your favorite documentaries to the list below.<\/p>\n

Enjoy.<\/p>\n

Animals<\/h3>\n

Blackfish<\/a>
\nGrizzly Man<\/a>
\nThe Cove<\/a><\/p>\n

Movies about Movies<\/h3>\n

Best Worst Movie<\/a>
\nBurden of Dreams<\/a>
\nHearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse<\/a>\"\"
\nJodoroworsky\u2019s Dune<\/a>
\nLost in La Mancha<\/a><\/p>\n

Music<\/h3>\n

Anvil! The Story of Anvil<\/a>
\nBeware of Mr. Baker<\/a>
\nEnd of the Century – The Story of the Ramones<\/a>\"\"
\nHoop Dreams<\/a>
\nThe Filth and The Fury<\/a>
\nThe Devil and Daniel Johnston<\/a>
\nThe Last Waltz<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

People<\/h3>\n

12 O\u2019Clock Boys<\/a>
\nBrother\u2019s Keeper<\/a>
\nCrumb<\/a>
\nElena<\/a>
\nExit Through the Gift Shop<\/a>
\nJiro Dreams of Sushi<\/a>
\nMan on Wire<\/a>
\nMarwencol<\/a>
\nCapturing the Friedmans<\/a>
\nQueen of Versailles<\/a>
\nTabloid<\/a>
\nThe King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters<\/a><\/p>\n

Sports<\/h3>\n

Dogtown and Z-Boys<\/a>
\nMurderball<\/a>\"\"
\nThe Undefeated<\/a>
\nWhen We Were Kings<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

War, Politics, Strife<\/h3>\n

Armadillo<\/a>
\nClient 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer<\/a>
\nFive Broken Cameras<\/a>
\nHarlan County, U.S.A. (The Criterion Collection)<\/a>\"\"
\nHow to Survive a Plague<\/a>
\nIraq in Fragments<\/a>\"\"
\nManda Bala<\/a>
\nNo End in Sight<\/a>
\nParadise Lost: The Childhood Murders at Robin Hood Hills<\/a>
\nRestrepo<\/a>
\nShoah (Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]<\/a>\"\"
\nStreetwise<\/a>
\nTaxi To the Dark Side<\/a>\"\"
\nThe Act of Killing<\/a>
\nThe Unknown Known<\/a>
\nTrouble the Water<\/a>
\nWaltz with Bashir<\/a>
\nWest of Memphis<\/a>
\nWhen the Levees Broke: A Requiem In Four Acts<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

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People occasionally ask me what\u2019s the best way to become a better editor. For a long time, my stock answer was to watch a lot of movies. I think now that a more precise answer is to understand how movies work: to dissect them the way Renaissance artists dissected cadavers in order to better understand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":15742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[896],"class_list":["post-18677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-storytelling","tag-film","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}